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No offence, but this is basically the poor man's Finagle. Except Finagle is Netty based, and this is Jetty based.

Anyway, this API is really as terse as one can get with Java. Great developer-UX job!

That's the first thing I looked at - whether these were Netty based. We've been using raw Netty for our core application and it's been amazing.

Quick question: What's the draw of using Netty vs pure java.nio? The latter (Selectors, Socket/DatagramChannels, ByteBuffers etc) seems reasonably straightforward to use, so I've never really looked at a framework - am I missing out?

It's hard to synchronize: http://github.com/tinspin/rupy

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